Book Trailer

Introduction

Amanda Pringle, Our Lady of the Way Petrie

Students will create a book trailer for "Home to Mother" by Doris Pilkington Garimara.

These trailers will be viewed by other students.

Introduction

All of us have seen movie trailers at some point in our lives. These movie trailers give us a brief but very intense look at an upcoming movie. The movie trailer is designed to peak our interest and persuade us to want to watch the movie. Trailers use powerful music, fast moving images and key lines from the movie to give us an overall feel for the story.

 

 

Task

Task

Your task is to create a book trailer for the novel "Home to Mother" Doris Pilkington Garimara using persuasive elements and devices to persuade your audience to read it.

Represent the book in a powerful and interesting way that makes us want to read it without giving the entire story away! Your trailer can use video, music, sound effects and images to help tell the story of your novel. In the end, your trailer will be viewed by the students at Our Lady of the Way.

Process

Process

Planning Your Trailer

You must complete the entire planning process before you start making your book trailer video. This planning is very important and will make the process much easier and your final product much better.

 

Step One

Complete the following book trailer template story map

Book Trailer planning template

Copies will be given out in class.

 

Step Two

Share your book trailer planning with at least one other person in class. Work together to improve each of your plans. The conversation you have here is very important and can be a huge help.

Teacher Checkpoint

You must have your teacher sign off on the Book Trailer Template BEFORE you can move on to the next step. You will be asked to report on the conversation that you had with your classmate(s) and the ideas that came from that conversation.

 

Step Three

Create a folder in your One Drive called Book Trailer Media. You will be searching for images, sound effects, music and video and will need to save these things into your Book Trailer Media file.

 

Step Four

Using your Book Trailer Template as a guide, begin your search for the media (images, music, etc) that you will need for your book trailer. Save these in your Book Trailer Media file.

ALL MEDIA for your video must have a CREATIVE COMMONS license or be in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. See the links below for help in finding this kind of media.

  • Videos: Be sure you include "creative commons" in your search term. You can also visit Wikimedia Commons for a list of places that offer these kinds of videos
  • Pictures: If using Google Search...Be sure to click on "search tools", then "usage rights", then "Labeled for Non Commercial Use with Modification"
  • ALL types of Media (sound clips, video, music, pictures):

Visit "Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media"

Visit Creative Commons Search

 

Step Six

Putting Together Your Book Trailer

Now it's your turn! Using the media you have found as well as your planning sheets, start putting together your video!

Your video must contain the following information:

  • Title of book
  • Author of book
  • Persuasive elements and devices

The end of your video must contain the following information:

  • Your first name and last initial 

Video must be between 1.30 and 2.30 Minutes in length.

Evaluation

 

CRITERIA

HOME TO MOTHER PERSUASIVE TEXT

 

 

SCORE (0-3)

PURPOSE

(Persuade your audience to read the book)

Does the text have a clear purpose and are selected elements appropriate to this purpose? Is it obvious this is a Book Trailer (persuasive text)?

 

AUDIENCE

(Ban the Boring)

(Year 4, 5 & 6)

Does the text orient, support and engage the interest of the intended reader/viewer? Will your audience understand your chosen vocabulary, music, images and graphics and engage the viewer to want to keep watching?

 

TEXT STRUCTURE &

ORGANISATION

(persuasive devices)

Is there growing knowledge of the structure of learning area texts and is the complexity of the text structures appropriate to the approach to the topic, the purpose and the intended audience? Does your book trailer flow smoothly, captivates the attention of the audience, not give away the ending and compel the audience to read the book?

 

SUBJECT

MATTER

(Key Themes from the book)

Does the text contain key information and supporting details relevant to the purpose and does it show you understanding of how images and detail can be used to extend key ideas? Have you creatively presented key scenes or themes from the book to make the content of the book clear to the viewer?

 

COHESION

(Flow)

Depending on the purpose, is the text made cohesive through the use of the most appropriate devices? Is your meaning clear on first reading/viewing have you used images, voice, pace and music to correctly link your ideas?

 

SENTENCE

STRUCTURE &

PUNCTUATION

Does the text use simple, compound and complex sentence structures to describe, explain, report, and make connections between ideas and events and are these sentences punctuated accurately? Have you demonstrated the following punctuation: capital letters, full stops, commas, quotation marks, question marks to aid descriptions?

 

VOCABULARY

Does the text demonstrate growing knowledge of subject specific vocabulary, modality, noun groups, verb groups, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enrich sentences and provide detail? Are the language of opinion and feeling and the language of factual reporting used appropriately?

 

SPELLING

Does the text contain accurately spelled topic words. Have you included: simple words, common words, regular words, and word families containing known letters and letter clusters difficult words including homophones, challenging words including more complex irregular words, and is there evidence of the use of strategies for attempting unknown words.

 

 

TOTAL SCORE